Positions and employment

  From August 2013-                                     Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,

                                                                University of Oklahoma.           


September 2012 – June 2013


Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Eastern Washington University.

 

January 2009 - June 2012

Teaching and Research Assistant, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University.

 

August 2006 - August 2008

Economist (Head of Money and Banking Division),

Economic Research Department, Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

 

February 2003 - September 2005

Assistant Director (Head of Payments Systems Policy and Oversight Division), Payments and Settlements Department, Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

 

August 2002 - February 2003

Engineer (Head of Quality of Service Measurements Division and the International Switching Center), Sri Lanka Telecom.

 

January 1997 - August 2002

Technical Director, Advanced Business Automation Systems (Sri Lanka) and Advanced Business Automation Systems (Bangladesh).

 

October 1995 - December 1996

Systems and Software Engineer, OpenArc Systems Management, Sri Lanka.

 


 

Professional activities (selected)

81st Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, Washington D.C. (November 2011) – Presenter and Discussant.

 

3rd Annual Health Econometrics Workshop (AHEW), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. (September/October 2011) – Presenter.

 

2nd Annual Health Econometrics Workshop (AHEW), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (October 2010) – Presenter.

 

Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) summer program workshop on "Secondary Analysis of the National Survey of Parents and Youth", University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (June 2010) – Invited and sponsored attendee

 

Financial Programming and Policies (6-week residential workshop), International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. (January-February, 2008) – Invited and sponsored attendee

 

Compilation Practices of Consumer Price Indices in the Philippines, Study visit to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and the National Statistics Office (May, 2008)

 

Compilation Practices of Consumer Price Indices in India, Study visit to the Office of the Economic Advisor, the Central Statistics Office and the Labour Bureau (August-September, 2007)

 

SEACEN-IMF Seminar on Implementing a Balance Sheet Approach to Macroeconomic Surveillance, Ulan Batar, Mongolia (July 2007) – Invited attendee and presenter

 

Supervision of Payment and Settlements Systems, Sweriges Riksbank, Stockholm, Sweden (June, 2004)

 

2nd SEACEN-CPSS(BIS) Course on Payment and Settlements Systems and the 2nd Meeting of SEACEN Directors of Payment and Settlement Systems, Manila, Philippines (September, 2003) – Invited attendee and presenter